Example sentences of "from [art] rocks " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whiting to 1 lb and flats from the rocks at Ty Croes . |
| 2 | For several decades they have been studying superbly preserved fossils from the rocks of the Burgess shale , found in the Canadian Rockies , which are among the earliest fossils of complicated organisms . |
| 3 | These men will not readily wear garment of crotal when going to sea , as it is said that the crotal plant was plucked from the rocks and will therefore return to the rocks . |
| 4 | She had gathered plenty of heather and bracken for a warm bed ; she had made a fishing line from the hem of her dress , and caught some codling from the rocks to dry and smoke ; she had gathered mussels and cockles , and dried them by her fire . |
| 5 | ( i ) Salt is dissolved from the rocks beneath the Cheshire Plain . |
| 6 | Seawater percolates down through fractures , becomes super-heated and leaches metal from the rocks it passes through on its way back to the sea floor . |
| 7 | I detect no conventional underlying plan : although certain melodic ghosts ( from La Mer , and if I 'm not mistaken from Berg 's Op. 6 Orchestral Pieces ) seem to cry like shags and gannets from the rocks at various locations around the coast , the work really does offer itself as a succession of episodes , most of them only a few bars in length ( the shortest of all is the single bar — string and brass glissandi giving onto flutter-tongue flute with gong — that represents Orfordness ) . |
| 8 | The waves smashed spectacularly into the rocky coastline , creating instant waterfalls of white spume draining from the rocks before becoming drowned and engulfed by further successive waves . |
| 9 | Radioactivity exists naturally , emanating from the rocks that make up the Earth 's crust , particularly granite , and also in cosmic rays from space . |
| 10 | Thirty yards beyond the rocks was an open glade , starting from the right-hand side of the track and extending up the hill for fifty or sixty yards , and screened from the rocks by a fringe of bushes . |
| 11 | In this damp clay I had left footprints , and over these footprints I now found the splayed-out pug marks of the tigress where she had jumped down from the rocks and followed me , until the kakar had seen her and given its alarm-call , whereon the tigress had left the track and entered the bushes where I had seen the movement . |
| 12 | The meal that accompanied it was a feast , cooked and served by the patronne with justifiable pride : tiny moules marinières , which tasted as if they had been cut from the rocks that morning ; bifteck , brown and crisp on the outside , perfectly rare within ; a platter of thin crisp sizzling hot pommes frites ; an excellent salad , served in a plain white bowl . |
| 13 | The heat was retained by the celebrated ‘ greenhouse effect ’ , making the atmosphere hotter and very much denser , which in turn released further CO 2 from the rocks — the classic vicious circle . |
| 14 | For as the Industrial Revolution progressed and changed much of Northern England , the Lake District became more and more of an economic backwater , a comparatively poor district where , for example , people scraped the yellow lichen Ochrolechia tartarea from the rocks and sold it to dyers for a penny a pound . |
| 15 | As it trickles away and cools , the salts it gathered from the rocks on its way up , together with those derived from the molten mass far below , are deposited to form rimmed and buttressed basins , surrounded by tiers of terraces . |
| 16 | Such hard evidence could only come from the rocks . |
| 17 | Some use it to scrape algae from the rocks . |
| 18 | She had to learn how to gut and salt fish , pour a pint of ale , stack wheat and gather shellfish from the rocks and snails from the hedgerows , and did n't have time to bother with figures or letters . |
| 19 | For instance , we might attempt to sink our own anchors in the sandy sea-bed of mercy , whilst at the same time hauling up our opponents ' anchors from the rocks of justice . |
| 20 | Konings suggests that the ‘ Lanistes-dwellers ’ may have moved out from the rocks to a habitat with less competition . |
| 21 | ‘ Stay away from the rocks , Carol , ’ Greta Ross told me . |
| 22 | Grace and her mother held the boat away from the rocks . |
| 23 | But they were away from the rocks . |
| 24 | It is also possible that life developed , and if the rate of evolution was about twice as rapid as on the Earth then intelligent beings may have been among the organisms roasted to death as the Sun 's luminosity rose , the small oceans evaporated , and the CO 2 emerged from the rocks . |
| 25 | In the course of time it cooled and acquired an atmosphere from the emission of gases from the rocks . |
| 26 | She had to get them away from the rocks that edged the shore like jagged teeth . |
| 27 | Seismic and gravity data , together with direct evidence from the rocks themselves , allow us to identify the structural and compositional differences between oceanic and continental crust . |